Khruangbin’s A La Sala feels like a sunlit road trip through a desert of the mind—minimalist, hypnotic, and effortlessly cool. The Texas trio—Laura Lee Ochoa (bass), Mark Speer (guitar), and Donald “DJ” Johnson (drums)—returns to their roots with this fourth studio album, stripping back the cosmic sprawl of 2020’s Mordechai for a tighter, more introspective groove. Clocking in at 12 tracks, A La Sala (Spanish for “to the room”) invites listeners into an intimate space where funk, surf rock, and global influences swirl like dust motes in a shaft of light.
